I suppose most people would think of it being amazing when you're the daughter to Simon Cowell, in reality it's actually a pain in the ass. There's no privacy and no genuine people, and when you're a
16 year old girl, that's the main thing on your mind. So my dad's 'great' idea was to move me into the x-factor house with the other contestants so, in his words, I could mix with my kind of people. By
that I guessed he meant age and status but I'm still unsure.
Although I knew I was only going to be staying there for a maximum of 10 weeks, I didn't want to be completely miserable the whole time, so I promised my dad I would make an effort. Don't get me
wrong I have friends, lots of them, but I only have about two that I can trust entirely. Tara and Hannah, they were my best friends, stuck with me throughout everything and I loved them. The
attention from guys got extremely irritating too, with my dark brown hair and green eyes, I wasn't exactly stunning. In fact, I would say I was ordinary next to Tara and Becks, they both had brown
hair and blue eyes but there was something about them that stood out.
'Charlotte darling! Hurry up, the cars out front!' my dads' shouting shook me out out of my thoughts, and I pulled on my scruff boots quickly, not even bothering to tie them, and ran down the stairs of
our 'house'. I called it that to at least have some normality, but in reality it was a fucking mansion. Once I got to the bottom I noticed my packed suitcases being put into the car by our driver, then it hit
me, I was going to live in a house packed with strangers for 10 weeks... save me.
Honestly, I loved my life, but it did get overwhelming at times, so when I stepped out of the car after an hour and a half journey and was met with at least 10 paparazzi , let's just say I wasn't exactly
happy. I pushed my way through the crowd and waited for someone to open the doors to the x-factor house whilst I knocked. Finally, a woman opened it, she only looked young but she was
gorgeous, dark hair pulled back into a bun, tan and brown eyes.
'Oh hi, I'm Rebecca, you must be Charlotte?' she had a very strong scouse accent and I immediately recognised her from watching audition tapes with my dad.
'Yeah, I am. Nice to meet you', I tried to be as pleasant as possible, but to put it bluntly, I wasn't in the mood.
She offered to carry one of my bags in for me, and of course I accepted with a smile, there was too much for me to carry by myself.
'Everyone's been really excited to meet you', Rebecca looked back at me while we walked into the living room to place my bags in there.
'Really? I've been looking forward to it, it's going to be great!' I smiled, it was ok to lie a little, I was already adjusting so maybe it wasn't going to be that bad. We sat down on the sofa and started
talking about everything until four new faces appeared in the room.
'This is Rebecca, again!' the first Rebecca replied, laughing,
'Nice to meet you, I'm Charlotte' I smiled back,
'Same to you ,You can just call me Bex, save the confusion!' She grinned, she was quite petite, short read hair and seemed really nice.
'I'm Sophia' a gorgeous blonde said, looking at me,'and this is Geneva and Esther' she smiled pointing to the two other girls.
'Hey, oh you're Bella Amie?' I questioned, remembering the names from yet again, audition tapes.
They all smiled at me and nodded, I suppose it wasn't going to be as torturous as I thought, I mean, I had already met 5 genuinely lovely girls.
After talking for a following 10 minutes I decided to go and unpack before getting to into conversation, I got up and headed over to my 3 huge suitcases, stopping just to contemplate how this would
work...Sophia and Bex laughed and offered to grab one each and show me to my room.
'Sorry chick but you're room is next to the boys' Bex said giggling slightly,
'I'm sure they're not that bad, right?' I asked sceptically holding back a grin.
'Lets just say we've all only been in this house for 2 days and the one direction lads have already trashed their room and irritated Wagner and Mary, good luck hun' Sophia said winking.
I couldn't help but laugh at that, before we'd actually got to my room, we'd bumped into Matt, Aiden, Nicolo, Mary and Katie. They were all lovely especially Katie and Aiden.
Finally, we rounded a corner and came to two end rooms, one obviously mine and the other, one directions'.
'Well, we'll leave you to get unpacked hun' Bex said as she turned around,
'Give us a shout if you need anything' Sophia laughed before slapping Bex on the ass and running downstairs. God, those two I can tell, were going to be great friends. Before I unpacked I had a good
look at my room, of course it wasn't as big as my one back home but it was nice, Everything was white, the walls, the bed, everything, the only colour in the room were the curtains, bed spread and
the occasional picture hung on the wall. Yeah, I could tell, this stay was going to be fun.
I decided to call my dad after I'd unpacked, just to let him know that everything was sorted, I only had to wait about half a minute before he picked up;
'Charlotte, how is everything do you like it?'
'Hey dad, yeah it's great, I've only met about half of everyone so far, but they're all lovely'
'That's good sweetheart, listen I've got to go but I'll speak to you soon, yes?'
'Sure that's fine, bye dad'
'Goodbye Darling, I love you'
And cue the dial tone, I guess that was another side to this life, hardly ever getting to spend time with your dad, and it's not even like I can talk to my mum about anything because she died when I
was 4 because of cancer.
I jumped after I'd heard a slight knock on my door and I looked up to find a girl smiling at me,
'Hey, I just thought I'd come and introduce myself, I'm Cher' she said walking over to my place upon the windowsill, it was amazing how much she resembled Cheryl Cole, but she had a very hard look
about her, none-the-less like the rest she seemed lovely.
'Hey I'm Charlotte, nice to meet you' I said grinning at her, knowing we'd end up friends. After talking for ages in my room and being joined by Paije, FYD, Diva Fever and Treyc my room was basically
packed and it was getting late, so everyone said they were going to get something to eat or go to sleep, something along those lines. The only people I hadn't met yet were John Adeleye, Storm Lee,
Wagner and of course one direction. Apparently they were all in their rooms, which I definitely knew for one direction considering all afternoon I've heard screaming, boys will be boys.
It was coming up to midnight now and after I'd had my shower, I went downstairs to meet the rest of the people, which I did apart from the one direction boys again they were still in their room. The
only person that I didn't particularly like was Wagner, his moods and actions kind of freaked me out slightly.
'Babe, sure you don't want anything to eat?' Matt said to me as I was leaning against the kitchen counter,
'I'm fine thanks Matt, I actually think I'm going to head off to bed' I said mid-yawn, I was exhausted,
'Alright, I'll see you in the morning darling' he smiled. I wandered through the living room, saying night to the remaining people, as nearly everyone was in bed. I reached my room and changed into my
shorts and tank top, my pyjamas, grabbed my toothbrush and headed to the bathroom. I obviously forgot to knock because when I walked in I was met with a half naked guy.
'I'm so sorry, I was just going to bru-'
'it's ok' he cut me off grinning, it was only now I began to notice how beautiful he was, he had a mop of curly brown hair, green eyes, and a crooked smile with... oh he has dimples. Fuck me now!
'I'm Harry, you're Charlotte right?' he asked interrupting my staring,
'right' I said, 'do you mind?' I asked holding up my toothbrush,
'go ahead' he nodded, just grabbing his toothbrush.
It was silent while we brush our teeth apart from the occasional murmur of a 'sorry' if we knocked the others arm. I rinsed my mouth out while he stood staring.
'Yes?' I hinted, slightly weirder out,
'nothing, I'm going to bed' and he just walked out. I was so confused, what was up with him? I walked out of the bathroom and toward my crossing someone's path on my way.
'Charlotte?' he screamed making me jump slightly,
'Erm yeah, not to be rude but, who are you?' I responded giggling slightly at his massive grin plastered across his face,
'I'm Louis, just curious but have you seen a torch anywhere?' he looked at me vaguely,
'No sorry, why?'
'Oh just me and Niall want to make shadow puppets' the thing is I think he was serious so, but I couldn't help it, I burst out laughing. He must have been at least 18 yet he acted half his age!
'It's not funny! It's a very serious matter!' he responded in false baby voice, before I knew it I was being picked up and carried into one directions room and flung onto someone's bed.
'I'm so sorry! I don't know why he-' I was going to keep on apologising until I realised who I was sitting on,
'You always seem to be apologising to me' Harry said smirking,
'mhm... so I'm going to go' I jumped off Harry and headed toward the door, nearly making it until Louis decided to introduce me to the rest of the boys. After about 15 minutes I was getting tired so I
said goodnight and started walking to my room, just before I left the room, Harry caught my eye staring at me again, he smiled at me, his dimples showing, and I walked back to my room and got into
bed. It's safe to say I know who I'll be dreaming of tonight.
This is my first story so I hope you all like it, as far as I know there's no mistakes in it so it should be alright, please review! :)
